AMBER Archive (2005)

Subject: Re: AMBER: GNU Autotool integration for Amber8!

From: David A. Case (case_at_scripps.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 19 2005 - 18:41:32 CDT

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005, Xuebin Qiao wrote:
>
> The most important reason that I want to use autotool is to hide
> (auto-detect the default value of) the various tuning knobs in the configure
> script. For example, there are several compiler/architect combinations
> switches, such as sgi_mips, sparc and etc. And the arch guess code in
> current configure script is quite limited. Can we automatically discover
> most of the values of the supported combinations for end users?

I think it would be great to more reliably auto-detect environments, but I
wonder if autotools is really simpler or more reliable than coding the
"configure" script directly. Maybe if you could post a simple detection macro
that you are using for autotools, it would give a better idea.

[We can get you access to the amber9 code...contact me privately for that.
But as you can tell, I am not committing us to use autotools ... that will
still require quite a bit of pursuasion.]

We might move this discussion to the amber-developers list: to subscribe,
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the body of the message.

...regards...dac

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